Tories don’t communicate

Cambridge Times

Some weeks ago we had a Liberal MP having a go at Cambridge MP Gary Goodyear. Then recently we had Gary’s rebuttal. It reminded me of the late federal New Democratic leader David Lewis (father of that great human being, Stephen Lewis). David said without rancor, that the Liberals and Conservatives are like “Tweedle Dee, Tweedle Dum”. These kind of writings back and forth justify the phrase.

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In Tuesday’s edition of the Cambridge Times, we read what seems to be an interview by Bill Jackson, albeit a very tame interview indeed, with the heading, Clearing up Conservative myths. Our MP belongs to a party that would gladly shut Parliament down, as they have done several times.

His leader made an announcement in Davos, Switzerland about our treasured Old Age Security Pension, which he tells us is not a pension, but a gift from I’m not sure who. However, my tax general form tells me it is indeed a pension, as those of us who have been collecting it for years are well aware!

How dare these parliamentarians, with their slush funds and beautiful pensions we will never see. This from a party who has run up the biggest debt in the history of our beloved country. To get back to the announcement in Davos, why did his leader, go to a foreign country to make it, instead of in our democratic House of Commons? Perhaps if they had, there wouldn’t be so many myths/misunderstandings!

No, the Tories don’t do explaining themselves very well at all. You just have to look at our unemployment insurance, oops, employment insurance. Gary has been doling out our hard-earned cash so long, his party and him want to make it nearly impossible to get our own money, not theirs, when we have the misfortune of getting laid off from our jobs. In case he hasn’t noticed, it’s happening again in our own city.